UK sees another jump in Covid infections
The data suggests around 1.7 million people were estimated to have Covid in the week ending 18 June.Experts say two new fast-spreading subvariants of Omicron - called BA.4 and BA.5 - are likely to be driving new infections.
He said: "I don't wear a face covering, but if there were circumstances where I felt it was a really closed environment, with very high crowding and very intense social interaction, then those are the situations where I might think 'should I or shouldn't I'?The professor.
"And you know, we just accept in the winter that, if you've got seasonal flu and you're poorly for a few days, it disrupts your life. And so I think we've got start to frame Covid in a little bit more of those terms." She added: "In England, infections increased across all age groups, with the lowest level of infection seen in school-aged children."
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